Lead Engineer Application Architecture & Scalability (5 to 8 years Reports To: Head of Engineering)

Our client is the Middle East's leading on-demand grocery delivery platform — connecting millions of customers with supermarkets, dark stores, and specialty retailers across the UAE and beyond. Our backend powers a complex, real-time operation: inventory availability, order lifecycle, logistics coordination, and third-party integrations that have to work in concert, at scale, every day.

About the role
We are looking for a hands-on engineering lead who owns the architecture and scalability of our applications from the development side. You will make sure everything the teams build is designed and written to scale, performs well and follows a consistent standard.

This is a development role, not an infrastructure one. We already have a DevOps team handling the cluster, networking and cloud. Your home is with the developers, owning how services are architected, how the code holds up under load, and how applications are packaged and released. You will also ...